Double Chocolate Zucchini Bread

Such pests. Those darn hoppers. Grasshoppers have stolen something from me, and I’m more than a tad bit angry about it.

For two months, we’ve been feasting on 4 different tomato varieties, cucumbers, sweet and hot peppers, blackberries and raspberries, fresh basil, thyme and rosemary.

And all this time, I’ve waited patiently as my one token corner zucchini plant grew and grew and grew. It’s ginormous! We should have zucchini coming out of our ears, like every other year. Only this year is different. And I figured out the reason a few weeks ago. I spied those little critters mid-August, creeping around the edge of the garden.

Their food of choice: zucchini blossoms.

Of course, I could just go to the fruit stand or grocery store and BUY zucchinis. But it’s not the same. There’s something magical about growing your own and plucking them off the stem in your very own garden.

Dumb hoppers.

BUT…all was not lost, as I found out last week. Picking some yellow teardrop tomatoes, I spied with my little eye…one lone lovely zucchini! There it was, under those huge leaves, a beautiful, green jewel just waiting to be eaten. Our one and only zucchini of 2017.

Well, of course I had to make something wonderful to honor that prized green squash. It couldn’t be just any dish. And so I turned to one of the most elevated of foods: chocolate! Double Chocolate Zucchini Bread!

This is the dish that would pay homage to our one beautiful zucchini. Two types of chocolate and grated zucchini…a match made in heaven.

Sorry, hoppers. You may have fought a good battle, but you didn’t win the war.